05-07-2016 03:54 via theguardian.com

US army veteran shoots through rope to free bald eagle hanging from tree

Marksman Jason Galvin too 150 shots to release the bird – later named ‘Freedom’ – that was found hanging upside down and tangled in a rope A US army veteran has used his sharp-shooting skills to free a bald eagle trapped in a Minnesota tree ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. Jackie Gervais Galvin of Rush City, Minnesota, said on her Facebook page that the eagle had become entangled in a rope in the tree. It had hung upside down from a branch near the cabin belonging to
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